TOKYO human race nmd black , July 2 (Xinhua) -- Police and firefighters said on Thursday that a man burned himself to death with gasoline on a running Shinkansen bullet train earlier this week.

The 71-year-old Haruo Hayashizaki set himself on fire Tuesday with a lighter after pouring gasoline over himself inside the train, which was traveling between Shin-Yokohama and Odawara stations in Kanagawa Prefecture, local media quoted police as saying.

The incident happened on Tuesday also led a woman in her 50s dead and 26 others injured.

The police also said Hayashizaki bought his ticket for the Shinkansen on Monday, adding to evidence he had planned his act, said Japan's Kyodo News Agency.

The police Wednesday searched his apartment in Tokyo's Suginimi Ward and took from his house a 20-liter metal container, a type often used to transport gasoline and kerosene adidas nmd r1 triple black , said the report.

According to the police, Hayashizaki tried to buy gasoline at a gas station near his home on Monday afternoon, saying his car had run out of fuel. But the station refused because he only brought a plastic container. The police are still investigating where he obtained the gasoline used for the fire.

DAMASCUS, June 25 (Xinhua) -- After suffering losses to the Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, the Islamic State (IS) militants unleashed a retaliatory offensive against predominantly Kurdish areas in northern Syria on Thursday.

The terror-labeled group started simultaneous attacks against the Kurdish fighters in the predominantly-Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab, or Kobane adidas nmd r1 uk , and against the Syrian government forces in the city of Hasaka in northern Syria.

In Ayn al-Arab, in the northern countryside of Aleppo province near Turkey, the IS militants infiltrated the city in disguise, wearing the uniform of the Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and allied rebel groups, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based watchdog group.

The IS members infiltrated parts of the city and snipers fanned out in several areas adidas nmd chukka for sale , triggering violent battles with YPG fighters, during which 22 IS militants and 35 people, including YPG fighters, were killed.

The Observatory said the bodies of the IS militants were still tossed on the streets of Ayn al-Arab, adding that three explosions rocked that city, when three IS suicide bombers detonated three car bombs in different areas adidas nmd r2 primeknit white , mainly on the border point between Ayn al-Arab and Turkey.

The IS surprise attack against Ayn al-Arab has sent the chill down the civilians' spines there, as the IS had overran the city before and was forcibly dislodged out of the city five months ago.

Upon entering the town of Barkh Butan in southern Ayn al-Arab, the IS assailants shot dead 20 Kurdish civilians, who held up weapons to defend their town.

Observers said the IS wanted to storm Ayn al-Arab to revenge the losses it has recently suffered at the hands of Kurdish fighters in predominantly Kurdish areas in northern Syria.

Over the past few days, the YPG and allied rebel groups stripped the IS of several towns and areas in the northern countryside of the IS de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria, pushing the IS to call for back up forces to fortify its positions in the city of Raqqa.

Reports said the YPG and affiliated rebel groups are only 30 km from central Raqqa.

In another major offensive Thursday adidas nmd city sock uk , the IS militants launched a wide-scale assault on Syria's northern city of Hasaka, storming districts in the southern part of that city, whose northern and northwestern parts contain a large community of Kurds.

Intense clashes broke out between Syrian government forces and IS militants in the southern districts of Hasaka, according to the Observatory.

The London-based watchdog said the battles were coupled with intense shelling by both sides, and government airstrikes against the positions overran by IS in southern Hasaka.

IS militants detonated at least one booby-trapped vehicle at a government troops' checkpoint at the western entrance of Hasaka, said the Observatory nmd city sock white gum , adding that the militants reached the Sport City street, adjacent to the Central Prison and the Criminal Intelligence Branch, after storming districts of Nashweh and Sharia in the southern and southwestern parts of Hasaka.

According to the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists on the ground inside Syria, at least 30 government soldiers and 20 IS militants were killed during Thursday's battles.

Meanwhile, Syria's state-run al-Ekhbarieh TV said government troops are fighting intense battles against IS militants in Nashweh neighborhood adidas nmd xr1 uk , which, it said, houses many displaced families from the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, where the IS holds considerable sway.

It said the IS are committing crimes against the residents of that neighborhood.

The Kurds in Hasaka have a large community in the northern and northwestern parts of that city while the government troops hold positions in the southern part of Hasaka.

The Ekhbarieh TV said Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units are monitoring the battles in southern Hasaka without intervening.

Earlier this week, the IS staged several car bombings in Hasaka, leaving dozens of people wounded or killed. The attack on Hasaka on Thursday has been the second in June.

The last attack was foiled by government forces nmd xr1 rose gold , and the Kurdish fighters said then also that they would not interfere in the battles.

Abdul-Karim Sorkhan, a Kurdish leader, said both the Syrian forces and IS are antagonist to the Kurds, and that the Kurdish fighters are on standby to protect the densely Kurdish populated areas in the northern and western parts of the city.

In another escalation Thursday, a coalition of 51 rebel and jihadi groups declared the start of a major offensive to drive government forces out of the southern province of D